Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

I've lived too long and I've lived too well.

Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl.

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: "I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people."